The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-02

SECOND COMPTROLLER BUTLER has de-
cided that the sums not exceeding ten
dollars paid to certain colored recruits in
Virginia and the Department of the South
by Generals Butler and Gilmore, under
orders of the War Department, dated No
vember %, 1868, and December p, 1863,
respectively, were not bounties within the
meaning Of the bounty laws, and are not
to be deducted from the bounty to which
any such soldier is otherwise entitled.
THE Dublin Gazette publishes a procla-
nation sup pressing the National League
in Kerry and Clare and several branches
in Cork, Galway and Wexford.
AT the Irish National League meeting
on the 22d, in Dublin, it was stated that
since coercion was adopted subscriptions
to League funds had increased instead OF
diminished.
THE peace arbitration delegates who
visited America from England arrived at
Queenstown on the oath on their way
home.
EMPLOYING photographers, in session at
Chicago, on the oath, took prelim mary
steps to form State and National organi-
cations.
THERE is trouble brewing among the
brewers Of Chicago, growing out of the
attitude Of the men toward anarchy.
Mr.. PARNELL and other Irish leaders
have been summoned as witnesses in a
sensational libel suit of national impOr-
tance.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON pres ided at
Thanksgiv ing banquet given by the Amer
lean Club in London on the evening of the
18th Many prominent Americans were
present.
THE great game Of football between
Harvard and Yale on the oath was wit
messed by 10000 people 1t was splendid
ctr al In Of Va1a Nha
score being II to 8.
AT Barnesville, Mimi, on the 24th, all
hands in the Manitoba railroad machine
shops and round house, to the number OF
about two hundred, quit work because
they have not been paid for a month past.
A delay, they say, has occurred several
times before.
JAMES HOWARD, the old man charged
with opening letters of his former wife,
was released from custody at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, on the 23d, on account of a
technical error in the indictment, and
Immediately started for Bangor, Mich,
with his long-lost daughter.
A PITTSBURGH (Pa.) dispatch of the oath
says that the coke syndicate which for
time controlled prices, has decided to dis
solve, as they are no longer able to stand
out against the increasing number of pro-
ducers..
slavery comes from Panama.
A RUSSIAN named Fuchs, confined in
the Jail at Keokuk, Ia, has become vio-
lently insane, and developed a desire to
eat himself up.
CANADIAN organizations continue to
move for commercial union with the
United States.
THE westward movement of Russian
troops continues, and is said to be more in
the direction of Germany than toward
Austria.
DENNIS MCNAMARA, a shop-keeper at
Enn is, Ireland, has been sentenced to a
weeks Imprisonment for selling copies of
United ireland, VIM. O'Brien's paper, the
selling of which has been proclaimed.
TIE Iron Trade ReUiel0 publishes a
tabulated statement, showing the receipts
of iron ore at Cleveland, o., during the
season of navigation to be 1926, 600 tons,
gain of ten per cent. over the receipts of
last year.
THE Pesther L IOyd denies that each of
the powers in the triple alliance are only
bound to assist an ally il two powers at
tack it. It says an ally is bound under all
circumstances to assist.
A MAMMOTH American railroad securis =
ties swindle is charged by an English
financier against a German financier,
The arrest of the latter has been ordered,
anu u Dig Sbuadtiou pIoFduos LouuOH
monetary circles.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended the 25th numbered for the
United States 1877; for Canada, 20; total,
207; compared with 224 for the preced-
ing like period, and 216 Cor the corre-
spending week of 1856.
PREPARATIONS are being made to file a
suit at Bloomington, Ind, ia break the will
of DR.. Langdon, who died about a month
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than $50, 00G, to be disposed of by will, and
500, 900 more that he divided a year be-
fore his death.
AT place called Pososya, in the Prov
idence of Manibi, Chill, an epidemic which
kills seventy-hve per cent, of those at.
| tackled by it, has broken cut. The dis
ease begins with severe pains IN tbs
stomach, followed by fov OF blood from
the mouth, and sometimes from ths ey'sI